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Where the ‘Ritas Meet the Road in Oak Forest

A strip-mall enthusiast cruising the northern edge of Oak Forest this week sends a few shots from a stop through the 5405 T.C. Jester Center just south of Tidwell Rd. The center, located east across Cole Creek from the Northwest Wastewater Treatment Plant, is home to Frio To Go, part of Houston’s buddingtape-the-top frozen cocktail drive-thru scene. The daquiri store has been operating since 2014 under its traffic signal sigil; the shop’s placement also provides a handy opportunity for situational testing for the over-21 students of Prime Time Driving School, located a few doors down:

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The driving school set up in 2015 in the suite formerly occupied by H&H Liquor. The drive-thru bar, for its part, was last used as a drive-thru dry cleaners — with a presumably-not-drive-thru ice house attached: